#29 Laverne Cox
Among trans actors, Laverne Cox has the widest name recognition. The transgender woman who plays Anna in “Inventing Anna” is the first to be the subject of her own Barbie doll. “I think it’s important to be able to be like, ‘Yes, your shoulders are broad, yes your hands are big and your voice is deep and you’re really tall and people notice you, and that makes you noticeably trans, but that doesn’t make you any less beautiful,’” Cox said during an interview with Self Magazine.
“You’re not beautiful despite those things, you’re beautiful because of those things, and [believing] that has to be an active conscious process. I’m sexy and I’m going to own that because I think trans women are sexy… A lot of us are sexy not despite our transness, but because of our transness. That’s just the truth.”